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Wikipedia Overview
The Counter-Enlightenment refers to a loose collection of intellectual stances that arose during the European Enlightenment in opposition to its mainstream attitudes and ideals. The Counter-Enlightenment is generally seen to have continued from the 18th century into the early 19th century, especially with the rise of Romanticism. Its thinkers did not necessarily agree to a set of counter-doctrines but instead each challenged specific elements of Enlightenment thinking, such as the belief in progress, the rationality of all humans, liberal democracy, and the increasing secularisation of European society.
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COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT: DAVID HUME and JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU. Lecture 5 of Modern Philosophy [Peterson Academy course] - Stephen Hicks.org
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William Blake Was a Prescient Critic of Capitalist Alienation - Jacobin
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The Return of the Anti-Enlightenment - Cato Institute
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Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee - The Guardian
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Against Reason - Claremont Review of Books
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Blinded by the Enlightenment | Spencer Critchley - IAI TV
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A Counter-Enlightenment Creeps Through Eurasia - Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA)
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Why Counter-Enlightenment Convictions Are So Resilient - Quillette
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Dark-, Counter-, and Anti-Enlightenments — Enlightenment Romanticism Contemporary Culture - The University of Melbourne
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The Unbearable Lightness of Critique of the Enlightenment. Reading The Invention of Eastern Europe 25 Later. - Lefteast
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Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Philosophy professor uses Humanities Institute grant to examine Enlightenment period thinkers abroad - University of South Florida
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Steven Pinker’s new book on the Enlightenment is a huge hit. Too bad it gets the Enlightenment wrong. - vox.com
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How We Evaluate Our Current Circumstances: Talking to Steven Pinker - Los Angeles Review of Books
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The Enlightenment's legacy is under siege. Defend it. - The Week
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Why did Professor Beck say Kant is Counter-Enlightenment? - Stephen Hicks.org
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Steven Pinker's Counter-Counter-Enlightenment - Quillette
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Beiser on why the Counter-Enlightenment still matters today - Stephen Hicks.org
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Is German philosophy really Counter-Enlightenment? Nietzsche’s assessment - Stephen Hicks.org
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America’s Political Divide Has Roots in Clash Over Enlightenment - HistoryNet
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Marx and the Communist Enlightenment - Left Voice
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A Serious Man | John Ganz and Steven Klein - The Baffler
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He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration - The Guardian
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A More Enlightened View of the Enlightenment - The Imaginative Conservative
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Children of the Wicker Man - The Baffler
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Farage, Brexit and the anti-Enlightenment - Diggit Magazine
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Enlightenment, Yes! - Tablet Magazine
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Studio audience invitation for new Peterson Academy course: *Modern Ethics* - Stephen Hicks.org
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The post-truth era of Trump is just what Nietzsche predicted - The Conversation
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Mark Lilla · The trouble with the Enlightenment - London Review of Books
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Schopenhauer’s sense of humor - Stephen Hicks.org
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Zeev Sternhell, 1935–2020 - Jacobin
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Liberalism’s lion | Matt Hanson - The Critic Magazine
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Operational Art: How Clausewitz and Isserson Turn American Strategy into Tactical Action - Modern War Institute -
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Enlightenment Wars: Steven Pinker One Year On - Quillette
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A Battle for the Soul of the West - The Atlantic
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Was Kant an Enlightenment liberal? - Stephen Hicks.org
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‘Deep Thought’ channel reviews my *Modern Philosophy* course - Stephen Hicks.org
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Antivaxxers and the Founding Fathers: Why America Was Built on Science - Time Magazine
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Steven Pinker on Trump's 'counter-enlightenment' and how the world is better than ever before - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Against perfection: Conspiracy theories and “alt-Enlightenment” - ABC Religion & Ethics - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Nietzsche For and Against the Enlightenment - Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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A New Democratic Enlightenment? - The Conversation
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The Liberal Internationalist - Quillette
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Nietzsche: “The whole great tendency of the Germans ran counter to the Enlightenment.” - Stephen Hicks.org
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“Enlightenment Now”: Steven Pinker’s grand apology for capitalism - Salon.com
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Gandhi and Tagore: Counter-Enlightenment ideologues who discarded European modernity - ETV Bharat
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Review: In Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker would like you to know that everything – everything – is okay - The Globe and Mail
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A counter-argument to the “clash of civilisations” - The Economist
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How woke thinking plays into the hands of anti-democratic forces - ABC Religion & Ethics - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Degrowth and the Technocratic turn? - Arena Publications
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The hidden history of identity politics - spiked-online.com
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Theorising the online anti-public sphere — Enlightenment Romanticism Contemporary Culture - The University of Melbourne
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The cause of mankind - spiked-online.com
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Is the Enlightenment Still a Foundation for Working-Class Liberation? - LA Progressive
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The centuries-old history of Jewish “puppet master” conspiracy theories - vox.com
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